Regarding the Edwards girls growing up and their behavior towards Gunn and Jesse Haney. Transcription: less painful to experience, when you have been getting up the kindest big brotherly feelings towards them. [Jesse] Haney who has almost known them [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards] from baby-hood, who of late years had spent all his evenings at their house [745 Broadway], feeling the change of relations more keenly than I, who have been now sparing of the indulgence. Then, too, what ever little romances I may build up about people, (and men never cease to do so about youth and beauty) direct
Regarding the Edwards girls growing up and their behavior towards Gunn and Jesse Haney. Transcription: less painful to experience, when you have been getting up the kindest big brotherly feelings towards them. [Jesse] Haney who has almost known them [Eliza, Matty, and Sally Edwards] from baby-hood, who of late years had spent all his evenings at their house [745 Broadway], feeling the change of relations more keenly than I, who have been now sparing of the indulgence. Then, too, what ever little romances I may build up about people, (and men never cease to do so about youth and beauty) directly I'm removed from the fascination of intercourse, I have a habit of thinking down to the truth or what I take to be the truth. He has been too much with them, the which I inclined to, but resisted of late. Matty helped me to an un-angelify her, which, in a big brotherly way, I was a little inclined to, by little developments, showing that she rather presumed on her beauty, could be guilty of little rudenesses, and, worst of all, had a spice of the damned Yankee habit of imagining and resenting trifles. Sally, being less pretty, thinks less of her own consequence. For Eliza, she's too young, almost, to be 'counted in.' (Sally is 18, Matty 16 ? or 16 1/2, I've mis-stated the age of one or both, heretofore.) Well, the discovery comes hard upon Haney, who really had a right to more consideration; though he said and I agreed that the plague of the thing was the girls were right and we ? old Fools!! He wore such Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 50, July 10, 1859 . 10 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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